Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-03-24
A MIND-READER's FEAT.
Driving BlindfOld Through the Streets OF New
York in Search of Hidden Pin.
New York SIM


York in Search of Hidden Pin.
New York sun.
The fact that Mind Reader Bishop was
going to make blind dash ont of the
Hoffman house some time during vester-
day afternoon and rush off in search OF
an article hidden somewhere within
mile of the hotel by committee selected
for the purpose, became so we'll known
that great crowd gathered about the
Iwenty-fifth street entrances to the hotel,
and waited in the cold.
A medallion belonging to Mrs. Frank
Leslie was intrusted TO Col. T. W. Knox
Hoyt, II. G. Bunner, and II. Ct. Carleton.
They went off out of the hotel with it, and
were gone half an hour. Then Mr. Bishop
with his eyes bandaged and his head in q
black bag and himself attached to each
of three committeeman by a wire, was led
down to two-seated open wagon which
stood in the dense crowd before the door
in Twenty fifth street Mr.. Bishop was
assisted to the drivers seat and sat down
on the iefthand side. DR.. Hoyt climbed
up beside him. Col. Knox and Mr.. Charlie
ton took the back seat. Mr.. Bunner re-
manned behind in tho parlor, where be
wrote down on piece of paper the place
where the medallion pin was concealed,
putting the bit of paper in sealed on
velope, to be opened when Mr.. Bishop
returned.
When the mind-reader and the three
committeeman were started in the wagon
the committeeman held their bare hands
close to Mr.. Bishops hooded head for
moment, and then Mr.. Bishop, with
tight grip on the reins started the horses
toward Broadway with three carriages
and about five hundred people following
in his wake. He picked his way carefully
through the tangled procession of broad
way vehicles and when he reached the
north side of Madison square started the
horses off at a brisk trot Il swarm of able
bodied and well-dressed and apparently
rational men joining in the mob of boot
blacks and newsboys which swarmed
after him. The wires connecting Bishop
with the committeeman hung loosely,
and none of the hands held near the
mind-reader's head touched him.
The blindfold driver took the left-hand
side of the road, but avoided all veicles
well enough, driving ut a lively trot TO
the east side of No. 81 Madison square,
then to Twenty third street, then to
Fourth avenue, and then to Eighteenth
street. At Eighteenth street and Fourth
avenue he hesitated for a moment and
only escaped collision with a streetcar
by driving close to the curb He then
turned into Eighteenth street, and went
quickly to Irving place, where he turned
to the left and headed for,Gramercy park
On arriving at the park he turned to the
right and drove so slowly that the crowd
surged up closely around his wagon and
filed the street, one we'll dressed man
being knocked down by carriage which
was following in the mind-reader's wake.
He jumped up cheerfully and limped
along with the procession with undated
enthusiasm. At the southeast corner of
Gramercy park Bishop stopped his horses
climbed quickly to the ground, and ran
so swiftly of that the committee had all
they wanted to do TO keep track of him.
At the Gramercy Park hotel, on the east
side Of the park, he stopped for a mo-
ment, and then skipped up the steps and
entered the door, which was opened just
/ long enough to let him and his painting
escort in, and was then closed Just in
time to shut out the crowd.
After five minutes MIR. Bishop appear
ed with the wraps Off his head, his face
q.
ment He held alott the pin, and the
crowd cheered Then be got into the
wagon and held the pin up again, and
the crowd oheered again, and the mind
reader AMI his committee, with the three
carriages in the wake, drove quietly back
| to the hotel by the nearest route.
| As Mr.. Bishop entered the parlor he
was greeted with hand -clapping, and
when quiet came Col Knoz said.
/ "Mr Bishop found the pin under vase
which stood on the montel Oa the south
| side 81 the recep'ion-room of the new
part of the Gramercy Park hotel'I
! Then Jadge Gedney solemnly opened
| the sealed envelope, took fron it the bit
/ of paper on which Mr. Drummer had writ
/ ten the hiding place of the pin, and read
"'rhe pin was concealed under vase on
/ the mantel at the south side of the recep-
/ tion-room Of the Gramercy Park hotel.
! AZ this there was a,murmuF Of applause.
/ The committee went by an entirely diff
[ ferent route when they hid the pin, drlv
I ing first up Broadway so Thfptieth street,
/ then to Madison avenue, whero they de
! termiLed on the place of eoncealmeut'
Then they drove Twenty third street,
/ from there to Lexington avenue, from
! there down Lexington avenustO Gramercy
park. DR. Hoyt said that when Mr.. Bishop
/ took the bandages off his eyes, after
! discovering the pin, his pulse was bound
/ ing away nj the rate of 1872 beats to the
minute.